Quotes About Invention

If we're going to get this country out of its current energy situation, we can't just conserve our way out; we can't just drill our way out; we can't bomb our way out. We're going to do it the old-fashioned American way, we're going to invent our way out, working together.

What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.

When I got out of college, I gave myself till I was 30 to invent a product. If I couldn't do it by then, I would just get a real job. And that fear - the fear of a real job - motivated me to be an entrepreneur.

I wasn't much into girlfriends. I was too busy tinkering in the garage.

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

As a kid, I was less interested in the physical tinkering than thinking about what we would now call the physics, as opposed to the engineering.

As a kid growing up in a rural area, I was always tinkering with parts and machinery.

At heart, I am still the guy who loves tinkering with machines and writing code.

Tinkering with, and building the products Robinhood ships brings me joy.

You can go as far back as fifth grade, and you will find me tinkering with media and computers, making things that are a little off the beaten track.

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

I was just was tired of bending down, putting my hands in dirty water, ringing out a mop. So, I said, 'There's gotta be a better way.'

I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.

The few words of a title are the hardest words for any author to come up with.

I love making up titles.

Way back in the beginning, I would say in the 20s, when titles were first being treated for films, there was a lot of crazy stuff going on. Everybody was inventing. There were no conventions. Everything was up for grabs.

To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if you're not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines - ones that are no longer used.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

I'd take garbage, and I'd glue them together and create inventions.

All the biggest companies are based on a founder who had a need, hacked it together, and said, 'Hey, other people might want this.'

I had a dark room in my bedroom. I was always taking apart cameras and putting them back together. I still am a tinkerer.

My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.

I took my son to an exhibition about inventing things, and he was so inspired he started collecting toilet rolls and empty bottles for his own 'inventions.'